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Re: Anti-spam System Idea

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Mon Feb 16 16:08:05 2004

Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 23:06:15 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: "Timothy R. McKee" <tim@baseworx.net>
Cc: "'J Bacher'" <jb@jbacher.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200402162038.i1GKcbaI014334@ns1.baseworx.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


Timothy R. McKee wrote:

>There will *never* be a concerted action by all service providers to 
>filter ingress/egress on abused ports unless there is a legal requirement
>to do so.  Think 'level playing field'...
>  
>
Havenīt it been stated enough times previously that blindly blocking 
ports is irresponsible?

There are ways to similar, if not more accurate results without 
resorting to shooting everything that moves.

Pete


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